Seat-securing device for wagons.



G. W. RASMUS.

' SEAT SECURING DEVICE r011 WAGONS.

APPLICATION FILED HA3. 6, 1909.

947,028.; Patented Jan; 18, 1910.

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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

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SEAT-SECIIRING DEVICE FOR WAGONS Specification of Letters Patent;

Application filed March 5, 1909. Serial 1T0. 481,242.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. RAsiuUs, a' citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mount Union, in the county of Henry and State of Iowa, have invented anew and Improved Seat-Securing Device for Wagons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

There is a class of light freight wagons,

each provided with an oblong box-like body having parallel sides. Usually such wagons have each a single seat mounted on springs that engage and are supported on the sides of the body, being loosely mounted on the upper edges of said sides. Such wagons are frequently employed in the handling of different kinds of granular material in bulk;

and the load is dumped at the rear end of the body. This displaces the seat i f -itis not secured on the body, and as it is desir- V able at times to remove the seat and then quickly secure it in position for service, means for such a purpose is the subject of my invention. To this end the improvement provides novel, simple details Ofconstruction for a seat securing device, that may be readily connected with the body and seat of a wagon of the character indicated, and afford convenlent and reliable means.

for detachably securing the seat transversely on the Wagon body. a

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompany' 111g drawings forming a part of thisspecihcation, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectionalview of a wagon body of the rectangular box type, and a transverse, partly sectional, view of a spring-supported seat secured by the improvement on one side board of the body; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the upper portion of a side board for a wagon body, and an en larged longitudinal sectional view of the improved seat locking device mounted on the seat and side board, in interlocked condition, the section being taken substantially on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 5 indicates the bottom boards or platform of a rectangular wagon body, 6 the side boards therefor, and 7 the frontytransverse end gate for the wagon body, said end gate being secured upon an end of the side board by a cleat 8, as usual. The seat which is to be detachably secured transversely on the upper edges of the side boards of the wagon body, is of ordinary is thereto secured by bolts a.

(9n the upper side and at the center of said lower section 10 of each spring 10, 3

spring holding casing 12 is mounted, from Patented Jan. 18,1910.

, form, having a bottom board 9, that at or 'near eachend thereof, is secured uponthe upper half portions of two similar elliptical springs 10, one only appearing in the drawings,'these springs being disposed parallel with each other, and when mounted upon the side boards 6 are also .para.llel therewith.

The lower section10 "of each elliptical spring 10, is seated upon a base strip 11; and

the opposite sides of which extend two simi- T lar leaf plates 12*. Said plates that are seatedupon thelower section of the correspondingelliptical spring 10, are thereonsecured by the bolts a, and nuts as thereon,

said bolts passing downthrough the leaves 12 spring section 10 and. respective base strip 11,-as appears for one spring 10, and

strip 1;l,in Fig.2. I A I The length of the seat board 9 is so proportioned that the outer ends of the spring casings 12 will have clearance from the inner surfaces .of the side boards 6 when the seat isplaced on said side boards. In each cas-' 'ing 12 a locking bolt 13 is slidably located,

by a loose engagement of its cylindrical body within opposite perforations respec' tively formed in the end walls of said casing, as shown for one casing and locking bolt in Fig. 2.

Upon each bolt 13 a coiled spring ltis loosely mounted, and at one end presses formed or secured, affording convenient means for sliding the bolt.

In each side board .6, opposite a corresponding outer end wall of one of the-v spring casings 12, a socket box 15 is embedded, said box being provided with flanges 15 that lap upon or are embedded in the inner side of the side board 6, and" are thereon" secured by screws d. The circularly walled socket e in each box 15 is of a depthand di ameter that adapt it to loosely receive the opposite end of a corresponding locking bolt locking bolts 13 and partly rotating them,

the feather keys 0 will, by their position, be out of line with the grooves they normally occupy, which adjustment of the bolts 13 will hold them retracted and thus permit the seat 9 and its attached springs to be placed in position on the wagon body.

After the seat is mounted on the side boards 6 by an engagement of the bracket hangers or hooks 16 therewith, the handles l3 are turned around sufliciently to locate the feather keys 0 opposite respective grooves in the casing end walls; the seat and its attachments may now be moved alongonthe supper edges of the side boards 6, until the outer endsof the spring pressed locking bolts 13 are disposed opposite the open ends of the socket boxes 15, whereupon said bolts will be forced into the sockets e and the spring supportedseat be detachably secured on the wagon body.

Obviously, by a retraction of the bolts 13 and their retention in retracted condition, as hereinbefore explained, the seat is adapted for removal and subsequent replacement, as maybe desired.-

Having thus described my invention, I claim-:as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination with a wagon body having sockets in the inner face of its sides, of a springseat having a base strip provided with'means for engaging the sides of the body for supporting .the seat, casings carried by the strips and provided with openingsin their end walls; the openings of the outer wallsbeing provided with grooves, and spring pressed boltsmounted in the casing and projecting ateachend from said casings one end of the bolts engaging the sockets of the wagon body, the bolts being provided with handles and with keys fitting the grooves of the said openings.

2. A wagon'seat, comprising a seat, an elliptical spring secured to each end of the seat, longitudinal base strips to the upper faces of which the lower sections of the springs are secured, said strips being provided withhooks for engaging the sides of a wagon body, casings secured upon the upper sides of the lower sections of the springs, and spring pressed bolts in the casings and adapted to engage sockets in the sides of a wagon body.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

CHARLES W. RASMUS.

lVitnesses:

J. A. CLARK, J. A. GLAN'rz. 

